Suranne Jones credited as playing...
Ruth Slater
- Ruth Slater: I wouldn't mind being a nun.
- Carol Crossland: You don't look like a nun, Ruth.
- Ruth Slater: Don't I? What do I look like?
- Carol Crossland: A forklift truck driver.
- Izzie Ingram: So you actually farmed here?
- [Ruth nods]
- Izzie Ingram: That's amazing.
- Ruth Slater: Why? It's a farm.
- Izzie Ingram: I don't know, I just kind of imagined people hadn't farmed here for much longer than that. Are you sure you won't...?
- Ruth Slater: No, I'm not really a drinker.
- John Ingram: So what did you and your sister do when you were evicted?
- Ruth Slater: She got taken into care, and... I've never seen her since then.
- John Ingram: Why?
- Ruth Slater: She were adopted. And...
- [shrugs]
- Ruth Slater: it's just the way it were.
- John Ingram: That's awful.
- Ruth Slater: She'd be 21 now. I'd like to see her, but I can't.
- Izzie Ingram: Why?
- Ruth Slater: 'Cause I had a few problems back then, and they must've decided... Don't know. Seems very unfair, now. As I say, she were only six, so... Happen she's forgotten me.